“The neurocognitive system…..exists only enmeshed in the world in which we move and live with others through our bodily existence” -Thomas Fuchs, from Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience and its implications for Psychiatry.

This signature program course is designed to explore emerging concepts in affective neuroscience research related to embodied clinical practice. The course explores the neurologically interrelated functioning of sensation, perception, memory, and emotion. Clinically relevant inquiry regarding neuroplasticity, attachment, and the developing mind orient each session.

How do we engage and impact another’s brain functioning? How are states of mind co-created? How does attachment impact brain functioning? How does this inform clinical interventions, such as pacing and initiation, nonverbal dynamics in the session, tracking of implicit and explicit content?